The school system’s enrollment has reached 5,000, superintendent Michael Williams shared at the quarterly luncheon about education and workforce development held with the Madison County Chamber of Commerce on Oct.
joining me now, zacharykarabel and cnbc contributor keith bo boykin. zachary, first, some of them jobs, many i believe over 100,000 in construction and due to the housing market rebounding. and if retail gains holdover of christmas. personally i don t want to go too far in the direction of, wow, this is great. this is where i don t want to use the word great but saying when you say more people confident. confident. yeah. this is still very, very slow job recovery. still fewer than five years ago and fewer americans employed than ten years ago and some retirement but i think the fact is we know we re stable now and don t quite know how we get to that point where we re more than stable. right. and we know to keep everything in perspective, the unemployment rate has ticked up 7.9 so that